containment
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With refinements - better reporting delays, asymptomatic cases - they could give public-health officials something priceless in the early hours of an outbreak: a sense of which actions matter most, before the window for containment snaps shut.
From BBC
A protective shield covering the Chernobyl nuclear reactor in Ukraine can no longer provide its main containment function following a drone strike earlier this year, according to a UN watchdog.
From BBC
The second plan is containment: keeping automation below the chaos threshold until infrastructure and regulation are ready.
"The only thing we have is to trust that all the containment protocols are working," Higuera concluded, as hundreds of regional health officers, troops and EU experts worked on monitoring the outbreak.
From Barron's
At that time progress on containment remained slow, according to LAFD.
From Los Angeles Times
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